04/03/2021
Thavala adai :
Thavala adai with a easy ready mix that you can prepare ahead and just mix with hot water to make delicious evening snack or a special dinner.
Ingredients:
1 cup idli rice
1/2 cup toor dal/ thuvaram paruppu
1/4 cup chana dal/ kadalai paruppu
1 tbsp moong dal/ payatham paruppu
5 red chilli
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp cumin seeds
Salt as needed
Oil as needed
To temper:
2 tsp Oil
1/2 tsp Mustard
1 tbsp ginger chopped
1/8 tsp Asafoetida
1 Sprig curry leaves
Instructions:
1. First powder red chilli, black pepper and salt coarsely.
2. Add cumin seeds, rice, toor dal, chana dal and moong dal. Grind until coarse, rava like texture.
Transfer to a bowl. Pour boiling hot water to the mixture and mix to make thick batter.
3. Keep aside for 1 hr. Temper with Mustard, asafoetida, ginger, curry leaves.
Add grated coconut and mix well. Adjust the consistency with more hot water as it would have become thick after resting 1 hr.
4. The batter should be thicker than the regular adai batter.
5. Heat a heavy bottomed pan/ kadai, preferably iron.
Spread a thick adai over greased kadai.
6. Pour 2 tbsp of oil around and cook covered in lowest flame for 3 mins approx.
Open the lid and carefully flip and cook again for 2-3 more mins. Drizzle oil around again while cooking.
7. If needed, poke holes here and there for even cooking. Longer you cook in low flame, more crispier. But never be stingy over oil. Transfer to serving plate.